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Finding Joy by Ellen Payne

Disturbing And Heartbreaking

Finding Joy by Ellen Payne is an autobiography of a survivor of abuse. Abuse that began in childhood but continued into adulthood as Joy believed words spoken over her and labels put on her.

The tongue is a powerful; instrument and can be used to speak life or death over others. We should guard it far more often than we do.

Abuse comes in many forms. When children are abused by their parents, where do they go? Who do they tell? They believe that this is the norm or it is their fault that it is happening.

Much abuse goes undetected. It is only as people open up as adults that the floodgates open and others begin to talk.

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